In the last days has spoken of several novelties that prepares the UEFA for the competitions of clubs, but already has started one of relative to the combined national. The Nations League premières in this month of September like a new title for the best selections of the world, with the advantage besides, to award some notes for the next European tournaments.
It will be a championship with four leagues, ordered according to the classification in the ranking of coefficients of national federations of the UEFA. In each one of them (To, B, C and D), there will be four groups of three participants, that will confront in a format of all against all to gone and turn. The winners of each group will contest two eliminatory to see the one who carries the trophy (final semifinal, in the case of the league To) or will go up of category (in the case of the rest), and the losers of each one of them will descend to the immediately inferior league.
In the first, the To, will be the most powerful teams: Germany, Portugal, Belgium, Spain, France, England, Switzerland, Italy, Poland, Iceland, Croatia and Holland. As there are 55 participants in this first edition, in the leagues C and D there will be also groups in which there will be four applicants. Especially important will be, besides, the results in this tournament, because they will affect to the configuration of the next Eurocopa.
In March of 2019 will start the phase of classification, that will finish in November. In this part of the championship there is not excessive novelties, since they keep the classical format with ten groups and five or six applicants by group. The two first of each one will receive the direct note to the final phase, whereas there will be four passes that will award in the Nations League (20 4).
Because of this incorporation, what himself that disappears are the eliminatory of repechage. All the champions of group in the UEFA Nations League will contest a playoff of 16 teams in 2020 to struggle by these four squares, although yes already are selected by the usual road, will yield his turn to the following better classified.
The UEFA Nations League keeps the calendar of selections
The international stops will not modify in the calendar, will continue as up to now because in his place appears the Nations League. Besides, as there are groups of three in the majority of the leagues, the selection that do not contest split in the determinate date will have space for some friendly. When they define the classifications of all the groups, the semifinals of the mentioned playoffs by the title will celebrate the 5 and on 6 June 2019, and the final the day 9.
Configuration of all the leagues of the UEFA Nations League
LEAGUE To
- Group 1: Germany, France, Holland
- Group 2: Belgium, Switzerland, Iceland
- Group 3: Portugal, Italy, Poland
- Group 4: Spain, England, Croatia
LEAGUE B
- Group 1: Slovakia, Ukraine, Czech Republic
- Group 2: Russia, Sweden, Turkey
- Group 3: Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Northern Ireland
- Group 4: Wales, Ireland, Denmark
It TIES C
- Group 1: Scotland, Albania, Israel
- Group 2: Hungary, Greece, Finland, Estonia
- Group 3: Slovenia, Norway, Bulgaria, Cyprus
- Group 4: Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, Lithuania
It TIES D
- Group 1: Georgia, Latvia, Kazajastán, Andorra
- Group 2: Byelorussia, Luxembourg, Moldavia, Saint Marino
- Group 3: Azerbaijan, Islands Feroe, Malta, Kosovo
- Group 4: Macedonia, Armenia, Liechtenstein, Gibraltar